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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorado Fuel & Iron people. I'll say to them, 'We want the Bethlehem formula.' They'll say to me, 'What is the Bethlehem formula?' "Then I'll pound the table and I'll say, 'What the hell you trying to do-break the union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Magic Formula | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...every side, came the hunt," wrote Authoress Mary Webb in the climax to her 32-year-old novel, Gone to Earth. "Coming, as they did, from the deep gloom, fiery-faced and fiery-coated, with eyes frenzied by excitement, and open, cavernous mouths, they were like devils emerging from hell on a foraging expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gone to Earth | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...might be that these people have nothing to say. But it's difficult to talk when you're smothered by such amateur symbolism as: "Oh Dante, I'm in hell" (Handy). Perhaps it's just a matter of getting the words out right and putting the paragraphs in order, techniques which can be acquired. Anyway, isn't it pretty to think...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...York Newspaper Guild (of which she was not a member) to perpetuate the Pure Language League by distributing pamphlets. Said the Guild's Executive Vice President Tom Murphy: "Well, we've got the money, but I don't know what the hell we're going to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Speak No Evil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...boys were having a hell of a time," said Randall last night, "and didn't realize that it wasn't the idea of their having fun in the Square, but the obstructing of traffic, that the police objected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deans Discuss Fates of Rally Rioters Today | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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